Social-networking for the beyond

Social-networking for the beyond

Watching as natural disasters can hit at any time. Death can strike at any time, without giving us the chance to mend wrongs or say goodbye. With that, Australian entrepreneur went ahead and started a website where people could contact loved ones from… beyond the grave?

Peter Ingram was a security systems retailer. He watched as his aunt was diagnosed with brain tumour and within two week lost her ability to speak, write, or even smile.

“I’d known her for 20 years and to me that was devastating,” said Ingram. Since her diagnosis until the day she went down under, she was 100 percent conscious but without the ability to respond.

Ingram recently launched FromBeyond2u.com, Australia’s first virtual time-capsule site. It’s a site that allows the living to leave videos, photographs and documents to be sent out to loved ones after death.

The cost is low, for just a dollar a week, users can store their “cherished digital memories” and programme farewell messages for the time of their death and on fixed dates such as birthdays or anniversaries into the future. A certificate with an activation code in the event of death is given to every user to be left with their will or next of kin.

The time-capsule concept wasn’t something new, but the Internet has changed the method of doing it. “You can keep in touch today, tomorrow and beyond,” says Ingram.

FromBeyond2u is part social-networking hub, part memoir project. Ingram says, “Its appeal lies in creating everlasting love for generations to come.”

PS: The site seems to be not accessible.